Most impractical wine in the cellar?

[Rich_Brown]

Midas of Armand de Brignac.

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30L and it comes in its own coffin/bathtub.

The ONLY format that a true balla drinks out of

[Rich_K0rz_nk0]

That’s a tough draw. Maybe if it was marketed in advance to wedding venues as a dessert accompaniment, that would draw attention in a general market. Can give it a go for charity. Might be more of a game of “no backsies” for the lucky winner that doesn’t realize what they are getting.

3 L of Eiswein is not for the meek. And I know I’d need to run quite a few miles to wear that off after. Probably a marathon. And I like Eiswein.

At 200 or so calories per 4oz, I’m thinking at least a 50 miler- assuming you burn 100 calories per mile. So let’s say maybe a 50 with some decent climbs…

Damn, more than I thought yet not surprised lol. Though I might need to pencil one of those in for Thanksgiving in general this year

[Randy_Smith]

Turley.

[Rich_K0rz_nk0]

Turley.

Not alone and in good company, there are whole threads on that one alone. Mine have to sit top of rack to not mess with others.

[Chuck_Miller]

It used to be a 6L of 1989 Haut Brion, but I solved that problem when I opened it for a 60th birthday bash about 7 years ago, along with a 6L 1989 Lynch Bages, 6L 1990 Montrose, 6L 1999 Mouton and a 3L of 1983 Yquem. Other guests took the opportunity to clear their cellars of mags of Champagne and white burgs. Now the biggest bottles I have are magnums, including a 1995 Huet Cuvee Constance, who knows when I’ll drink that.

I used to have a 3L of 1983 Y’quem. I sold it 10 years ago when I finally resigned myself to just how impractical it was.

So, how was it?

Every one of these bottles, except the Mouton, was outstanding. The Yquem, at age 30, was a gorgeous golden color with power but very balanced. It could have gone another decade or two, but I wasn’t sure I would make it that long. A phenomenal wine to end the evening.

[Chris_Seiber]

However hard it had always been to find occasions for many large format bottles, it seems even harder now and looking into the future. I have opened 0 of mine this year.

[PeterH]

I’ve got a 750 ml bottle of Retsina given to me by a neighbor.
It should have been put up in thimble size containers.

[Mark_Thompson]

6L bottles of d’Yquem are usually what I most closely associate with “impractical”. I have a 15L 1994 Rauzan Segla that would generally fit the bill. I’m not even sure how to physically decant it (though I found a helpful YouTube video).

Mark, if you can somehow bring that big boy on your next trip to your hometown, I promise I will assemble a worthy throng of imbibers.

I like that idea. Hopefully one of whom has an engineering degree.

[Sarah_S]

That’s a tough draw. Maybe if it was marketed in advance to wedding venues as a dessert accompaniment, that would draw attention in a general market. Can give it a go for charity. Might be more of a game of “no backsies” for the lucky winner that doesn’t realize what they are getting.

3 L of Eiswein is not for the meek. And I know I’d need to run quite a few miles to wear that off after. Probably a marathon. And I like Eiswein.

At 200 or so calories per 4oz, I’m thinking at least a 50 miler- assuming you burn 100 calories per mile. So let’s say maybe a 50 with some decent climbs…

Damn, more than I thought yet not surprised lol. Though I might need to pencil one of those in for Thanksgiving in general this year

You and me both. I’ve been drinking too much and not running enough this year…

[David_Bu3ker]

I suspect there have already been threads on this subject, but I was looking for a particular wine the other day and was confronted with this massive 3L 2002 Dr. Loosen Bernkasteler Lay eiswein. It’s nearly as tall as a couple of my kids. I mean, I really do like riesling in all its manifestations, but wth? I remember buying it at a fire sale price, which is great…but still I can’t even imagine what event/crowd might warrant this gigantic bottle of sweet wine. I also have Kracher TBA mags from the same fire sale, which are crazy enough, but the 3L eiswein is truly ridiculous.

I have a 3L of Loosen Bernkasteler Lay Kabinett. We need to do a dinner!

[Markus_S]

But we do have more than four cases of '89 Poniatowski Clos Baudoin. Slightly more practical, but still…

But at least this can show differently depending on what he put it. As I understand, Poniatowski would never put sec, demi-sec, or moelleux on the label, wanting instead ‘to let the vintage speak’.

[Mark_Golodetz]

I have a complete vertical of double magnums of Ridge Monte Bello, 2006 through 2014 (missing the 2009).

[Eric_White]

5L of Monbosquet (1999, iirc) - when in the hell am I ever going to open this damn thing?

[AndrewH]

Midas of Armand de Brignac.

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30L and it comes in its own coffin/bathtub.

That is surely the picture in the dictionary next to “excessibe balla”

[AndrewH]

I have a complete vertical of double magnums of Ridge Monte Bello, 2006 through 2014 (missing the 2009).

Doesn’t that make it an incomplete vertical?

Not that I wouldn’t be pleased to help you work through it anyway . . .

[Sarah_Kirschbaum]

But we do have more than four cases of '89 Poniatowski Clos Baudoin. Slightly more practical, but still…

But at least this can show differently depending on what he put it. As I understand, Poniatowski would never put sec, demi-sec, or moelleux on the label, wanting instead ‘to let the vintage speak’.

One assumes, though, that all the '89 Clos Bau were the same.

[Michael_S_Monie]

Any half bottle of Champagne…

Any wine in a plastic bag…

Definitely agree with the half bottles of Champagne; always a craps shoot.

[Michael_Bowden]

I don’t own this but any bottle of chateau de la gardine chateauneuf du pape - they don’t fit into racks and they don’t stack (safely) on top of each other (same with Turley, Krug, SQN, etc…). At least with most of the larger formats out there they come in their own OWC so, while maybe impractical (to some) they are easily stored.

[Sarah_Kirschbaum]

Any half bottle of Champagne…

Any wine in a plastic bag…

Definitely agree with the half bottles of Champagne; always a craps shoot.

I don’t think that’s what Kirk meant. Certainly wasn’t what I meant!

[Eric_White]

I don’t own this but any bottle of chateau de la gardine chateauneuf du pape - they don’t fit into racks and they don’t stack

Travaglini Gattinara too - neat bottles, but a nightmare in the cellar